In 1664 it was sold to Alexander
Holt of Gristlehurst and when William Holt died in 1737 one
of his daughters, Elizabeth, inherited the hall and
subsequently passed by Marriage to the Richard Beaumont of
Whitley on 13 January 1747.. This was an ancient manorial
hall of the age of Henry VII and situated 3 miles south of
Clitheroe. It is sometimes called Mytton Hall.
Whitaker stated in the History of
Whalley that the hall was 30 feet long and 24 feet wide and
has an open timbered roof 18 ft high to the wall plate. The
hall had an embayed window, screen, and gallery over it with
one of the finest Gothic rooms seen in a private house. The
screen-work was extremely rich which was of later date than
the rest of the wood-work. The panels of the screen are carved,
in pretty bold relief, ten heads, male and female, within
medallions, possibly intended for portraits and in the others
are the initials T.D.H.. The minstrel gallery appears to be an
afterthought of the Jacobean era.
A large part of the house was
rebuilt about 1844 and further alterations were made in 1874.
